In the ninth podcast entitled “Judicial Disaster Preparedness,” the Honorable Bernice Donald, who serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and Sharon Sayles Belton, Vice President of Government Affairs and Community Relations for Thomson Reuters, and former Mayor of the City of Minneapolis, discuss the importance of disaster preparedness to ensure the continuity of the judicial system in the event of man-made or natural disasters. Judge Donald will be participating in a panel discussion entitled, “Preparing for the Worst – Is the National Prepared for Natural Disasters” at the TIPS Spring Meeting in Charleston, SC on May 17, 2012.